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Some advice about best practices on mailing lists

Hosted by Dave Morriss on 2015-04-03 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-SA license. Tags:email,mailing list,thread,conversation,mail client.Listen in ogg,
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Mailing List Etiquette

Overview

In February 2015 I created a script to add a section to the monthly Community News show notes. The added section summarises the discussions on the HPR mailing list over the previous month. My script processes the messages archived on the Gmane site and reports on the threads it finds there.

In writing this script I noticed the number of times people made errors in replying to existing message threads and initiating new threads on the list. I thought it might be helpful if I explained some of the do's and don'ts of mailing list use to help avoid these errors.

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